What is the right level of MSP staffing in a medical staff office? This is a common question, but one without an easy answer. There is no such thing as a typical medical staff office, and there is no industry standard for staffing requirements.
A number of articles have been written about bias in peer review?what it is, how it affects the overall peer review process, and types of bias, to name a few. Bias is understandably the stumbling block to effective peer review. It is the one factor that can take a well-meaning committee that is...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 6
The 2016 MSP Salary Survey wraps up on May 6. While we tally last-minute responses and develop our expert-driven analysis, here's a sneak peek at how the results are stacking up, based on the roughly 875 responses we received at the time of publication.
In April, two states took action against the American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Oklahoma became the first state to sign a law stating that MOC cannot be a requirement for physicians seeking medical licensure or hospital clinical privileges in that...
Organizing medical staff members into specialty-based departments may make sense for large organizations. But for smaller hospitals, service lines built around a shared purpose--pediatric care or surgery, for example--can engender interdisciplinary collaboration, positive outcomes, and patient...
"When I talk about PSOs what seems to resonate are the peer review protections. And what I say is, look, this is not a mafia regime coming to the neighborhood to offer you protection," says Matthew Womble, executive director, Emergency Medical Error Reduction Group, a PSO based...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 15
The amount of revenue physicians generate for their hospitals is on the rise, according to data from a Merritt Hawkins survey of hospital chief financial officers. On average, a physician generated $1.5 million for his or her affiliated hospital, up from the $1.4 million reported in the 2013...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 14
Nearly all specialties that were represented in Medscape’s 2016 Physician Compensation Report noted a pay increase from the previous year. Rheumatology and internal medicine reported the largest pay increase (12%), while general surgery, anesthesiology, and HIV/ID reported only a 1% increase.
